This year SabriScan celebrates its 20th anniversary. Story began in 1998. All the way from the beginning, the centre of the story has been, world-class OPEX-Lean excellency and internationalization. In the early years growth was accelerated by the mobile phone industry. In 2004 company gained strong foothold in automotive lighting industry by acquisition of Hella lighting mould tool production in Salo, Finland. The first foreign office was opened at 2005 in China. After surviving from 2008 financial crisis company has continued its internationalization and opened subsidiary company in Romania at 2014 followed by subsidiary company in India at 2016.

Today SabriScan’s main area of expertise is demanding optical moulds for automotive industry and other technical moulds. The business is growing steadily. The strategy of the company is focused on international growth, establishing new maintenance/manufacturing units and, now at the end of 2018, the comprehensive digitalization of operations.

The purpose of the digitalization project in a growing company is to have a solid customer interface, common internal operating models, improved cost efficiency and transparency of operations anywhere in the world. In financial department, operational transparency has been completed earlier. In this year, company has worked to digitalize sales, production and project management.

The background for digitalizing production and project management has been detailed LEAN – operation model that has been tested for the last 3 years. After careful and methodical analysis of international automotive industry demands, requirements and feedbacks, in the beginning of 2019 SabriScan will go step by step towards digital tools. With the help of these tools’ customers can get an overview of real-time status of their ongoing projects from anywhere in the world. Digital tools will increase the productivity of supply chain and accelerate projects lead time. Sub-suppliers and other relevant stakeholders will also have real-time connection to SabriScan system.

Digitalization of sales has been developed in last few years by using LEAN – methods and this year it has been introduced simultaneously worldwide. Pipeline thinking, people involving, transparency and proactivity allows us to implement our strategy and increase sales steadily.

“With the digitalization of sales and systematic pipeline thinking, we are cruising on our defined growth path, hitting mile stone after milestone, supported by multiplied real-time open offer base” Said Jari Kokkonen, CEO of SabriScan.